This poem is based upon Herrick, "A Child's Grace" (1591-1674) -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based uponJohn Skelton (1460?-1529), " Mistress Margaret." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based upon Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517?-1547), "Vow to love faithfully, howsoever he be rewarded." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based upon Lines: 1. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, "Description and praise of his love Geraldine, "from Tottel's Songs and Sonnets, 1557 2. Surrey, "The frailty and hurtfullness of beauty, "from Tottel, 1557 3. Edmund Spencer 4. Henry Constable 5. Thomas Tusser 6. Sir Thomas Wyatt 7. Bartholomew Griffin 8. Sir Phillip Sidney 9. Edmund Bolton 10. Richard Lynche 11. Spenser 12. Edward de Vere 13. Sidney 14. Henry Constable -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based upon Emerson, "Good Hope" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based upon Milton, Paradise Regained, Book 3, 11. 47-118. Butler, Hudibras, Part III, Canto I, 11. 795-859 & 915-920. Blake, Vala, or The Four Zoas, "Night the Eighth" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based upon George Peele, Song from The Old Wives Tale -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based upon Chaucer, "The Legend of Thisbe of Babylon," Incipit Legende Tesbe Babilonie, Martiris, from The Legend of Good Women, beginning lines -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based upon Dryden, "Song of Venus" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based upon Wyatt, "The Lover's Life Compared to the Alps" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based upon Landor, "Rose Aylmer" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based upon George Gascoigne, "The Plowman," from The Steel Glass -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based upon Shelley, "Ozymandias" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based upon Wyatt, "What no, perdy" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based upon John Jones, from his Adrasta, 1635 -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based upon Praed, "Sonnet to R.C. Hillyard, October 15, 1836" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based upon Fulke Greville, from Caelica (xiv) -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based upon Sir Walter Ralegh, "Epitaph" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based upon Drayton, from Poems, 1619 -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This poem is based upon Tennyson, "To a Lady Sleeping" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.